Dear all,

i just got myself an used DEC-alpha 3000/500 with a J300 card (or
something) in it and a neat 19" color monitor. It's currently running
OSF/1 V3.2, but i would like to run NetBSD/alpha for i'm used to it and
the OSF/1 is getting a bit old and misses a lot of software.

I was quite dissapointed when i saw that NetBSD/alpha only supported the
serial console ... but in NetBSD/alpha -current i see a nice kernel
configuration that might help me !!
 
The trouble is that even though i have more machines, including a
DECstation 5000/33, i can't seem to get the serial console working... 

So i'm asking you if someone would like to build me an install kernel
based on TCWSCONS or the like. I really would like to use the
console/keyboard/mouse !!, also for installing....

Is it wise for me to upgrade ? I sure would like to have sound output and
or to use the J300 card (av0 in OSF/1) ... but i have no source for that
as far as i can see... I do have a licence for OSF/1 and a source-CD, but
i guess the card's software came precompiled. 

Would like to see the audio work though one day (and videodigitiser
perhaps) :)) .... maybe even homecraft some if i got the docs about it...
i've programmed videodigitisers and audio stuff before... be it in
(Strong)ARM MC and not in Alpha MC...

Thanks in advance,

Reinoud Zandijk


Installed cards
  5-AV300-AA  ( 2 times audio in/out + videodigitiser )
  3-DGLTA-FA  ( obsolete ATM card... not used )


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OSF/1 reports the following `dmesg' :

Feb 29 11:46:20 littleprincess vmunix: LK401 keyboard, language English
(American)
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix:
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: Alpha boot: available memory from
0xb40000 to 0x10000000
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: DEC OSF/1 V3.2 (Rev. 214); Thu Nov
14 09:16:35 MET 1996
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: physical memory = 256.00 megabytes.
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: available memory = 236.07
megabytes.
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: using 975 buffers containing 7.61
megabytes of memory
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: tc0 at nexus
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: scc0 at tc0 slot 7
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: tcds0 at tc0 slot 6
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: scsi0 at tcds0 slot 0
Feb 29 11:46:21 littleprincess vmunix: rz3 at scsi0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
(DEC     RZ26     (C) DEC T392)
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: rz4 at scsi0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
(DEC     RRD42   (C) DEC  4.5d)
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: scsi1 at tcds0 slot 1
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: fb0 at tc0 slot 8
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix:  1280X1024
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: bba0 at tc0 slot 7
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: ln0: DEC LANCE Module Name: PMAD-BA
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: ln0 at tc0 slot 7
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: ln0: DEC LANCE Ethernet Interface,
hardware address: 08-00-2B-3B-42-43
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: otto0 at tc0 slot 3
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: otto0: SRC OTTO AN2 Interface,
hardware address 08-00-2B-80-16-A0
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: J300 video subsystem configured
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: J300 audio subsystem configured
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: av0 at tc0 slot 5
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: DEC3000 - M500 system
Feb 29 11:46:22 littleprincess vmunix: Firmware revision: 2.4
Feb 29 11:46:23 littleprincess vmunix: PALcode: OSF version 1.28
Feb 29 11:46:23 littleprincess vmunix: dli: configured

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